Having lived in Africa for over 30 of my adult years and also as a child, I was prepared to scoff at this book. I assumed it would be written by somebody who spent two weeks here and assumed they were an expert on Africa. I was pleasantly surprised that it wasn't like that, at least not too much. Instead, four American women are changed by interacting with African women. This is usually the reality of short mission trips ... those who come are changed more than they change anything while here. I do feel that even in this book the women were definitely in the honeymoon stage of cultural adjustment, but I loved how each woman became more aware of their problems and learned from their African sisters.